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Finally!! The much roumored replacement for our current IDE/ATA/ATAPI is materialising in the CVS repositories around the globe. So what does this bring us: A new reengineered ATA/ATAPI subsystem, that tries to overcome most of the deficiencies with the current drivers. It supports PCI as well as ISA devices without all the hackery in ide_pci.c to make PCI devices look like ISA counterparts. It doesn't have the excessive wait problem on probe, in fact you shouldn't notice any delay when your devices are getting probed. Probing and attaching of devices are postponed until interrupts are enabled (well almost, not finished yet for disks), making things alot cleaner. Improved performance, although DMA support is still WIP and not in this pre alpha release, worldstone is faster with the new driver compared to the old even with DMA. So what does it take away: There is NO support for old MFM/RLL/ESDI disks. There is NO support for bad144, if your disk is bad, ditch it, it has already outgrown its internal spare sectors, and is dying. For you to try this out, you will have to modify your kernel config file to use the "ata" controller instead of all wdc? entries. example: # for a PCI only system (most modern machines) controller ata0 device atadisk0 # ATA disks device atapicd0 # ATAPI CDROM's device atapist0 # ATAPI tapes #You should add the following on ISA systems: controller ata1 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 controller ata2 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 You can leave it all in there, the system knows how to manage. For now this driver reuses the device entries from the old system (that will probably change later), but remember that disks are now numbered in the sequence they are found (like the SCSI system) not as absolute positions as the old system. Although I have tested this on all the systems I can get my hands on, there might very well be gremlins in there, so use AT YOU OWN RISK!! This is still WIP, so there are lots of rough edges and unfinished things in there, and what I have in my lab might look very different from whats in CVS at any given time. So please have all eventual changes go through me, or chances are they just dissapears... I would very much like to hear from you, both good and bad news are very welcome. Enjoy!! -Søren
1999-03-01 21:19:19 +00:00
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* Copyright (c) 1998 - 2008 Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org>
Finally!! The much roumored replacement for our current IDE/ATA/ATAPI is materialising in the CVS repositories around the globe. So what does this bring us: A new reengineered ATA/ATAPI subsystem, that tries to overcome most of the deficiencies with the current drivers. It supports PCI as well as ISA devices without all the hackery in ide_pci.c to make PCI devices look like ISA counterparts. It doesn't have the excessive wait problem on probe, in fact you shouldn't notice any delay when your devices are getting probed. Probing and attaching of devices are postponed until interrupts are enabled (well almost, not finished yet for disks), making things alot cleaner. Improved performance, although DMA support is still WIP and not in this pre alpha release, worldstone is faster with the new driver compared to the old even with DMA. So what does it take away: There is NO support for old MFM/RLL/ESDI disks. There is NO support for bad144, if your disk is bad, ditch it, it has already outgrown its internal spare sectors, and is dying. For you to try this out, you will have to modify your kernel config file to use the "ata" controller instead of all wdc? entries. example: # for a PCI only system (most modern machines) controller ata0 device atadisk0 # ATA disks device atapicd0 # ATAPI CDROM's device atapist0 # ATAPI tapes #You should add the following on ISA systems: controller ata1 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 controller ata2 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 You can leave it all in there, the system knows how to manage. For now this driver reuses the device entries from the old system (that will probably change later), but remember that disks are now numbered in the sequence they are found (like the SCSI system) not as absolute positions as the old system. Although I have tested this on all the systems I can get my hands on, there might very well be gremlins in there, so use AT YOU OWN RISK!! This is still WIP, so there are lots of rough edges and unfinished things in there, and what I have in my lab might look very different from whats in CVS at any given time. So please have all eventual changes go through me, or chances are they just dissapears... I would very much like to hear from you, both good and bad news are very welcome. Enjoy!! -Søren
1999-03-01 21:19:19 +00:00
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Finally!! The much roumored replacement for our current IDE/ATA/ATAPI is materialising in the CVS repositories around the globe. So what does this bring us: A new reengineered ATA/ATAPI subsystem, that tries to overcome most of the deficiencies with the current drivers. It supports PCI as well as ISA devices without all the hackery in ide_pci.c to make PCI devices look like ISA counterparts. It doesn't have the excessive wait problem on probe, in fact you shouldn't notice any delay when your devices are getting probed. Probing and attaching of devices are postponed until interrupts are enabled (well almost, not finished yet for disks), making things alot cleaner. Improved performance, although DMA support is still WIP and not in this pre alpha release, worldstone is faster with the new driver compared to the old even with DMA. So what does it take away: There is NO support for old MFM/RLL/ESDI disks. There is NO support for bad144, if your disk is bad, ditch it, it has already outgrown its internal spare sectors, and is dying. For you to try this out, you will have to modify your kernel config file to use the "ata" controller instead of all wdc? entries. example: # for a PCI only system (most modern machines) controller ata0 device atadisk0 # ATA disks device atapicd0 # ATAPI CDROM's device atapist0 # ATAPI tapes #You should add the following on ISA systems: controller ata1 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 controller ata2 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 You can leave it all in there, the system knows how to manage. For now this driver reuses the device entries from the old system (that will probably change later), but remember that disks are now numbered in the sequence they are found (like the SCSI system) not as absolute positions as the old system. Although I have tested this on all the systems I can get my hands on, there might very well be gremlins in there, so use AT YOU OWN RISK!! This is still WIP, so there are lots of rough edges and unfinished things in there, and what I have in my lab might look very different from whats in CVS at any given time. So please have all eventual changes go through me, or chances are they just dissapears... I would very much like to hear from you, both good and bad news are very welcome. Enjoy!! -Søren
1999-03-01 21:19:19 +00:00
*/
Add support for the HPT366 chip, this is used on the Abit boards and their HotRod controller and on SIIG PCI ultra DMA controller. These changes also made lots of the Promise code go away, its all much more generic this way. Get rid of atapi_immed_cmd, instead use the queue to move atapi commands from interrupt context if nessesary, the entire atapi layer has gotten an overhaul. Lots of fixes to utililize the new features in subr_disk.c etc, and get rid of the last biots of softc arrays in the drivers, the only one left is atadevices which cannot easily go away (yet). Use our own malloc names, its a lot easier to track memory usage this way. General cleanup overall.
1999-10-09 19:57:13 +00:00
/* structure describing an ATA disk */
Finally!! The much roumored replacement for our current IDE/ATA/ATAPI is materialising in the CVS repositories around the globe. So what does this bring us: A new reengineered ATA/ATAPI subsystem, that tries to overcome most of the deficiencies with the current drivers. It supports PCI as well as ISA devices without all the hackery in ide_pci.c to make PCI devices look like ISA counterparts. It doesn't have the excessive wait problem on probe, in fact you shouldn't notice any delay when your devices are getting probed. Probing and attaching of devices are postponed until interrupts are enabled (well almost, not finished yet for disks), making things alot cleaner. Improved performance, although DMA support is still WIP and not in this pre alpha release, worldstone is faster with the new driver compared to the old even with DMA. So what does it take away: There is NO support for old MFM/RLL/ESDI disks. There is NO support for bad144, if your disk is bad, ditch it, it has already outgrown its internal spare sectors, and is dying. For you to try this out, you will have to modify your kernel config file to use the "ata" controller instead of all wdc? entries. example: # for a PCI only system (most modern machines) controller ata0 device atadisk0 # ATA disks device atapicd0 # ATAPI CDROM's device atapist0 # ATAPI tapes #You should add the following on ISA systems: controller ata1 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 controller ata2 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 You can leave it all in there, the system knows how to manage. For now this driver reuses the device entries from the old system (that will probably change later), but remember that disks are now numbered in the sequence they are found (like the SCSI system) not as absolute positions as the old system. Although I have tested this on all the systems I can get my hands on, there might very well be gremlins in there, so use AT YOU OWN RISK!! This is still WIP, so there are lots of rough edges and unfinished things in there, and what I have in my lab might look very different from whats in CVS at any given time. So please have all eventual changes go through me, or chances are they just dissapears... I would very much like to hear from you, both good and bad news are very welcome. Enjoy!! -Søren
1999-03-01 21:19:19 +00:00
struct ad_softc {
This is the much rumoured ATA mkIII update that I've been working on. o ATA is now fully newbus'd and split into modules. This means that on a modern system you just load "atapci and ata" to get the base support, and then one or more of the device subdrivers "atadisk atapicd atapifd atapist ataraid". All can be loaded/unloaded anytime, but for obvious reasons you dont want to unload atadisk when you have mounted filesystems. o The device identify part of the probe has been rewritten to fix the problems with odd devices the old had, and to try to remove so of the long delays some HW could provoke. Also probing is done without the need for interrupts, making earlier probing possible. o SATA devices can be hot inserted/removed and devices will be created/ removed in /dev accordingly. NOTE: only supported on controllers that has this feature: Promise and Silicon Image for now. On other controllers the usual atacontrol detach/attach dance is still needed. o Support for "atomic" composite ATA requests used for RAID. o ATA RAID support has been rewritten and and now supports these metadata formats: "Adaptec HostRAID" "Highpoint V2 RocketRAID" "Highpoint V3 RocketRAID" "Intel MatrixRAID" "Integrated Technology Express" "LSILogic V2 MegaRAID" "LSILogic V3 MegaRAID" "Promise FastTrak" "Silicon Image Medley" "FreeBSD PseudoRAID" o Update the ioctl API to match new RAID levels etc. o Update atacontrol to know about the new RAID levels etc NOTE: you need to recompile atacontrol with the new sys/ata.h, make world will take care of that. NOTE2: that rebuild is done differently from the old system as the rebuild is now done piggybacked on read requests to the array, so atacontrol simply starts a background "dd" to rebuild the array. o The reinit code has been worked over to be much more robust. o The timeout code has been overhauled for races. o Support of new chipsets. o Lots of fixes for bugs found while doing the modulerization and reviewing the old code. Missing or changed features from current ATA: o atapi-cd no longer has support for ATAPI changers. Todays its much cheaper and alot faster to copy those CD images to disk and serve them from there. Besides they dont seem to be made anymore, maybe for that exact reason. o ATA RAID can only read metadata from all the above metadata formats, not write all of them (Promise and Highpoint V2 so far). This means that arrays can be picked up from the BIOS, but they cannot be created from FreeBSD. There is more to it than just the missing write metadata support, those formats are not unique to a given controller like Promise and Highpoint formats, instead they exist for several types, and even worse, some controllers can have different formats and its impossible to tell which one. The outcome is that we cannot reliably create the metadata of those formats and be sure the controller BIOS will understand it. However write support is needed to update/fail/rebuild the arrays properly so it sits fairly high on the TODO list. o So far atapicam is not supported with these changes. When/if this will change is up to the maintainer of atapi-cam so go there for questions. HW donated by: Webveveriet AS HW donated by: Frode Nordahl HW donated by: Yahoo! HW donated by: Sentex Patience by: Vife and my boys (and even the cats)
2005-03-30 12:03:40 +00:00
u_int64_t total_secs; /* total # of sectors (LBA) */
u_int8_t heads;
u_int8_t sectors;
u_int32_t transfersize; /* size of each transfer */
int num_tags; /* number of tags supported */
int flags; /* drive flags */
Add a "spindown" facility to ata-disks: If no requests have been received for a configurable number of seconds, spin the disk down. Spin it back up on the next request. Notice that the timeout is only armed by a request, so to spin down a disk you may have to do: atacontrol spindown ad10 5 dd if=/dev/ad10 of=/dev/null count=1 To disable spindown, set timeout to zero: atacontrol spindown ad10 0 In order to debug any trouble caused, this code is somewhat noisy on the console. Enabling spindown on a disk containing / or /var/log/messages is not going to do anything sensible. Spinning a disk up and down all the time will wear it out, use sensibly. Approved by: sos
2008-03-17 10:33:23 +00:00
#define AD_F_LABELLING 0x0001
This is the much rumoured ATA mkIII update that I've been working on. o ATA is now fully newbus'd and split into modules. This means that on a modern system you just load "atapci and ata" to get the base support, and then one or more of the device subdrivers "atadisk atapicd atapifd atapist ataraid". All can be loaded/unloaded anytime, but for obvious reasons you dont want to unload atadisk when you have mounted filesystems. o The device identify part of the probe has been rewritten to fix the problems with odd devices the old had, and to try to remove so of the long delays some HW could provoke. Also probing is done without the need for interrupts, making earlier probing possible. o SATA devices can be hot inserted/removed and devices will be created/ removed in /dev accordingly. NOTE: only supported on controllers that has this feature: Promise and Silicon Image for now. On other controllers the usual atacontrol detach/attach dance is still needed. o Support for "atomic" composite ATA requests used for RAID. o ATA RAID support has been rewritten and and now supports these metadata formats: "Adaptec HostRAID" "Highpoint V2 RocketRAID" "Highpoint V3 RocketRAID" "Intel MatrixRAID" "Integrated Technology Express" "LSILogic V2 MegaRAID" "LSILogic V3 MegaRAID" "Promise FastTrak" "Silicon Image Medley" "FreeBSD PseudoRAID" o Update the ioctl API to match new RAID levels etc. o Update atacontrol to know about the new RAID levels etc NOTE: you need to recompile atacontrol with the new sys/ata.h, make world will take care of that. NOTE2: that rebuild is done differently from the old system as the rebuild is now done piggybacked on read requests to the array, so atacontrol simply starts a background "dd" to rebuild the array. o The reinit code has been worked over to be much more robust. o The timeout code has been overhauled for races. o Support of new chipsets. o Lots of fixes for bugs found while doing the modulerization and reviewing the old code. Missing or changed features from current ATA: o atapi-cd no longer has support for ATAPI changers. Todays its much cheaper and alot faster to copy those CD images to disk and serve them from there. Besides they dont seem to be made anymore, maybe for that exact reason. o ATA RAID can only read metadata from all the above metadata formats, not write all of them (Promise and Highpoint V2 so far). This means that arrays can be picked up from the BIOS, but they cannot be created from FreeBSD. There is more to it than just the missing write metadata support, those formats are not unique to a given controller like Promise and Highpoint formats, instead they exist for several types, and even worse, some controllers can have different formats and its impossible to tell which one. The outcome is that we cannot reliably create the metadata of those formats and be sure the controller BIOS will understand it. However write support is needed to update/fail/rebuild the arrays properly so it sits fairly high on the TODO list. o So far atapicam is not supported with these changes. When/if this will change is up to the maintainer of atapi-cam so go there for questions. HW donated by: Webveveriet AS HW donated by: Frode Nordahl HW donated by: Yahoo! HW donated by: Sentex Patience by: Vife and my boys (and even the cats)
2005-03-30 12:03:40 +00:00
#define AD_F_CHS_USED 0x0002
#define AD_F_32B_ENABLED 0x0004
#define AD_F_TAG_ENABLED 0x0008
#define AD_F_RAID_SUBDISK 0x0010
Fourth update to the new ATA/ATAPI driver: Well, better late than newer, but things has been hectic around here, sorry for the long delay. DMA support has been added to the ATA disk driver. This only works on Intel PIIX3/4, Acer Aladdin and Promise controllers. The promise support works without the BIOS on the board, and timing modes are set to support up to UDMA speed. This solves the problems with having more than one promise controller in the same system. There is support for "generic" DMA, that might work on other controllers, but now you have been warned :) More chipset specific code will come soon, I have to find testers with the approbiate HW, more on that when I have it ready. The system now uses its own major numbers, please run MAKEDEV with the devices you need (ad?, acd?, afd?, ast?). For now the disk driver will also attach to the old wd major so one can at least boot without this step, but be warned, this will eventually go away. The bootblocks will have to be changed before one can boot directly from an "ad" device though. Fixed problems: All known hang problems should be solved The probe code has been sligthly changed, this should solve the reports I have lying around (I hope). Hangs when accessing ata & atapi device on the same channel simultaniously. A real braino in ata_start caused this, fixed. As usual USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!, this is still pre alpha level code. Especially the DMA support can hose your disk real bad if anything goes wrong, agaiin you have been warned :) But please tell me how it works for you! Enjoy! -Søren
1999-03-28 18:57:20 +00:00
This is the much rumoured ATA mkIII update that I've been working on. o ATA is now fully newbus'd and split into modules. This means that on a modern system you just load "atapci and ata" to get the base support, and then one or more of the device subdrivers "atadisk atapicd atapifd atapist ataraid". All can be loaded/unloaded anytime, but for obvious reasons you dont want to unload atadisk when you have mounted filesystems. o The device identify part of the probe has been rewritten to fix the problems with odd devices the old had, and to try to remove so of the long delays some HW could provoke. Also probing is done without the need for interrupts, making earlier probing possible. o SATA devices can be hot inserted/removed and devices will be created/ removed in /dev accordingly. NOTE: only supported on controllers that has this feature: Promise and Silicon Image for now. On other controllers the usual atacontrol detach/attach dance is still needed. o Support for "atomic" composite ATA requests used for RAID. o ATA RAID support has been rewritten and and now supports these metadata formats: "Adaptec HostRAID" "Highpoint V2 RocketRAID" "Highpoint V3 RocketRAID" "Intel MatrixRAID" "Integrated Technology Express" "LSILogic V2 MegaRAID" "LSILogic V3 MegaRAID" "Promise FastTrak" "Silicon Image Medley" "FreeBSD PseudoRAID" o Update the ioctl API to match new RAID levels etc. o Update atacontrol to know about the new RAID levels etc NOTE: you need to recompile atacontrol with the new sys/ata.h, make world will take care of that. NOTE2: that rebuild is done differently from the old system as the rebuild is now done piggybacked on read requests to the array, so atacontrol simply starts a background "dd" to rebuild the array. o The reinit code has been worked over to be much more robust. o The timeout code has been overhauled for races. o Support of new chipsets. o Lots of fixes for bugs found while doing the modulerization and reviewing the old code. Missing or changed features from current ATA: o atapi-cd no longer has support for ATAPI changers. Todays its much cheaper and alot faster to copy those CD images to disk and serve them from there. Besides they dont seem to be made anymore, maybe for that exact reason. o ATA RAID can only read metadata from all the above metadata formats, not write all of them (Promise and Highpoint V2 so far). This means that arrays can be picked up from the BIOS, but they cannot be created from FreeBSD. There is more to it than just the missing write metadata support, those formats are not unique to a given controller like Promise and Highpoint formats, instead they exist for several types, and even worse, some controllers can have different formats and its impossible to tell which one. The outcome is that we cannot reliably create the metadata of those formats and be sure the controller BIOS will understand it. However write support is needed to update/fail/rebuild the arrays properly so it sits fairly high on the TODO list. o So far atapicam is not supported with these changes. When/if this will change is up to the maintainer of atapi-cam so go there for questions. HW donated by: Webveveriet AS HW donated by: Frode Nordahl HW donated by: Yahoo! HW donated by: Sentex Patience by: Vife and my boys (and even the cats)
2005-03-30 12:03:40 +00:00
struct disk *disk; /* disklabel/slice stuff */
Finally!! The much roumored replacement for our current IDE/ATA/ATAPI is materialising in the CVS repositories around the globe. So what does this bring us: A new reengineered ATA/ATAPI subsystem, that tries to overcome most of the deficiencies with the current drivers. It supports PCI as well as ISA devices without all the hackery in ide_pci.c to make PCI devices look like ISA counterparts. It doesn't have the excessive wait problem on probe, in fact you shouldn't notice any delay when your devices are getting probed. Probing and attaching of devices are postponed until interrupts are enabled (well almost, not finished yet for disks), making things alot cleaner. Improved performance, although DMA support is still WIP and not in this pre alpha release, worldstone is faster with the new driver compared to the old even with DMA. So what does it take away: There is NO support for old MFM/RLL/ESDI disks. There is NO support for bad144, if your disk is bad, ditch it, it has already outgrown its internal spare sectors, and is dying. For you to try this out, you will have to modify your kernel config file to use the "ata" controller instead of all wdc? entries. example: # for a PCI only system (most modern machines) controller ata0 device atadisk0 # ATA disks device atapicd0 # ATAPI CDROM's device atapist0 # ATAPI tapes #You should add the following on ISA systems: controller ata1 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 controller ata2 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 You can leave it all in there, the system knows how to manage. For now this driver reuses the device entries from the old system (that will probably change later), but remember that disks are now numbered in the sequence they are found (like the SCSI system) not as absolute positions as the old system. Although I have tested this on all the systems I can get my hands on, there might very well be gremlins in there, so use AT YOU OWN RISK!! This is still WIP, so there are lots of rough edges and unfinished things in there, and what I have in my lab might look very different from whats in CVS at any given time. So please have all eventual changes go through me, or chances are they just dissapears... I would very much like to hear from you, both good and bad news are very welcome. Enjoy!! -Søren
1999-03-01 21:19:19 +00:00
};
This is the much rumoured ATA mkIII update that I've been working on. o ATA is now fully newbus'd and split into modules. This means that on a modern system you just load "atapci and ata" to get the base support, and then one or more of the device subdrivers "atadisk atapicd atapifd atapist ataraid". All can be loaded/unloaded anytime, but for obvious reasons you dont want to unload atadisk when you have mounted filesystems. o The device identify part of the probe has been rewritten to fix the problems with odd devices the old had, and to try to remove so of the long delays some HW could provoke. Also probing is done without the need for interrupts, making earlier probing possible. o SATA devices can be hot inserted/removed and devices will be created/ removed in /dev accordingly. NOTE: only supported on controllers that has this feature: Promise and Silicon Image for now. On other controllers the usual atacontrol detach/attach dance is still needed. o Support for "atomic" composite ATA requests used for RAID. o ATA RAID support has been rewritten and and now supports these metadata formats: "Adaptec HostRAID" "Highpoint V2 RocketRAID" "Highpoint V3 RocketRAID" "Intel MatrixRAID" "Integrated Technology Express" "LSILogic V2 MegaRAID" "LSILogic V3 MegaRAID" "Promise FastTrak" "Silicon Image Medley" "FreeBSD PseudoRAID" o Update the ioctl API to match new RAID levels etc. o Update atacontrol to know about the new RAID levels etc NOTE: you need to recompile atacontrol with the new sys/ata.h, make world will take care of that. NOTE2: that rebuild is done differently from the old system as the rebuild is now done piggybacked on read requests to the array, so atacontrol simply starts a background "dd" to rebuild the array. o The reinit code has been worked over to be much more robust. o The timeout code has been overhauled for races. o Support of new chipsets. o Lots of fixes for bugs found while doing the modulerization and reviewing the old code. Missing or changed features from current ATA: o atapi-cd no longer has support for ATAPI changers. Todays its much cheaper and alot faster to copy those CD images to disk and serve them from there. Besides they dont seem to be made anymore, maybe for that exact reason. o ATA RAID can only read metadata from all the above metadata formats, not write all of them (Promise and Highpoint V2 so far). This means that arrays can be picked up from the BIOS, but they cannot be created from FreeBSD. There is more to it than just the missing write metadata support, those formats are not unique to a given controller like Promise and Highpoint formats, instead they exist for several types, and even worse, some controllers can have different formats and its impossible to tell which one. The outcome is that we cannot reliably create the metadata of those formats and be sure the controller BIOS will understand it. However write support is needed to update/fail/rebuild the arrays properly so it sits fairly high on the TODO list. o So far atapicam is not supported with these changes. When/if this will change is up to the maintainer of atapi-cam so go there for questions. HW donated by: Webveveriet AS HW donated by: Frode Nordahl HW donated by: Yahoo! HW donated by: Sentex Patience by: Vife and my boys (and even the cats)
2005-03-30 12:03:40 +00:00
extern devclass_t ad_devclass;
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